The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-05-26
WHY NOT?
GIVE ANY GOOD REAo
ON FOR DECLINING TO
TAKE LIFE POLICY?

vo,, cannot saw. "It is novel thing"
life Assurance has been practlceo, ,
,,aora or less for three hundred year
In the last haifcenturv It has grown WIN
such rapidily in the .Uuited States, lna'
it is now one Of the greatest interests lh
thn conntrv. ranking with the most I'M
rOrtaut raj road and banking INTERESTS
Manv millions Of dollars are pafd by
tha british American companies every
year to the families of deceased meilpSls'
| of Life Assurance cnmpahles. ia ~
| other wav has money ever beeh SD sue
! cessfuliy distributed among thoSe WI"
are dependent aud unable to earn money
for ttemsplyes: and there is hardly
norson who reais this but who knows o.
| families saved KY the humane agency q
| Life Assurance from distressing Ills at
tendant upon poverty.
You cannot say cit is impiety to pro-
pose to assure human lives"
Fit were existence that is proposed TO
he assured, it won d be implety; but III Is
| 710ssessiou not existence.
You cannot say, 1T Is cnahce
operation
The laws governing Life Assurance
rest pom the rocky basis OF mathehi"tlcai
certainty, The facts Of astronomy, even,
cannot be more surely ascertained and
clearly demonstrated than the principles
un0u which Life Assurance IS based.
Won cannot say. cit is enough that !
have wealthy friends aud relatives.
Would yeu think it just to have reia,
tiyes thrown on Y01tr hands for support
: Is it right then,-is 1t mauiy-to lea9s
[ YOUR family whore they may AT any ti,pt
become burden to relatives or friends
> Aud does not your every parental loelips
recOil from such thought!
s You cannot say, 81 must pay "0
f debts first
' Thousands of hard working men nav!
unwisely said this to the neg 'ect or LII
Assurance. Perhaps they struggled an'
economised to pay for a farm, or a nome
n and had it nearly paid for; but ueatl
, took them eff, and that mortgage "htc
. had to be forecL ,sed, forced the propert
g mon the market and sacrificed it an
|, so tie little al was lost? WhGt Pr'2
~ il, satch o. case 1rontd eUcn small LIZ
% Pollen haze been! Such examples ougf
is TO be warning to you. Because yo
II are in debt you ought to be assured
You cannot say, My income is sler
e der, and | can invest my small earning
1t in something better"
20 Tt is easy to find good investments fc
small sums of money, say for $40, 80
- s 5 or 500? Are You sure OF proionge
er life 10 make t. Ose investments to amour
~ to much? But remember, by the pay
~ ment of single Life Insurance p?enat~
IS. YOU make a generous Investment at ono
G. You cannot S5y, an 100 Soo'a d ou
- | iect to assure; my father 1Ved TO oId az
Ia and am sound anu rugged"
as Ysur good health has money V0h
go in it, which YOU may use, II You see
! Upon it you can construct, AT once a II
od tune. Is it not wise to turn to accou
ne this capital (your sound constitution.
Ac tai ing insurance upon 1t, especial
'N' accidents and disease lie in v ait for al
er, You cannot say, 1t implies distru
sc. of Providence"
- The objection might as we'll he urg
~ against Fire Insurance; or putting liz
all niny-rods on buildings or, indeed, Ia
lth ing any precaution to avert poSslt
evils. Providence was not intended
li~ preclude self help.
18th You cannot say "fhe assured are {
q t. Gle soon
This is a foolish superstition. 1t
cal capable of proof that Life Assurar
lit tends direc ly to protQng lie, by relic
I'D ing it of anXieties, anu by promou
- the stability, economy, and good orr
-ed of society and the family. And statlst
i'm prove the same thing.
You cannot say 1t is expensive"
~ Do you ca laying up money "oxp'
nd siv,?"
ned You might as we'll talk Of the ''eNpen
of buYing bank stock, or of putt
her aside your earnings in any safe pla
af- as to s leak of the expense of keeping
not a lite policy. It is accumulation, not
the YOUNG,
ion LIFE AND FIRE lNsuRANCE A1EST'
Henderson. \.
10 Policies written in frst-class com
lily, niLs only.